Sayan Banerjee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3822248 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sayan Banerjee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sayan |
| FAMILY NAME | Banerjee |
| SIGNATURE | BANERJEE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Tech University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3412-4023 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Do Local Gender Quotas in Multilevel Democracies Improve the Electability of Women at Higher Tiers? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in North India
Do local gender quotas in multilevel democracies have “spillover effects” for the electability of women at higher tiers? Using a conjoint survey experiment in North India, we assess how exposure to village-level female leaders elected through a gender quota affects voter support for state-level female candidates. Based on prior literature, we develop a “multilevel learning” logic, whereby local gender quota exposure increases support for state-le…
Representation, ranking and bias of minorities in sampling attributed networks
Ethnonationalist Gender Norms
How do parties in multiethnic societies shape voter attitudes toward female candidates? We address this question, focusing on parties with ideologies that contain ethnonationalist gender norms—patriarchal norms applied to women from an ethnonationalist party's core ethnic constituency. We argue that, while these norms appeal to an ethnonationalist party's base, they also provide informational cues to the party's “non‐core” voters that undermine t…
Exposure to Partisan News and Its Impact on Social Polarization and Vote Choice
Studies have found limited evidence consistent with the theory that partisan and like-minded online news exposure have demonstrable effects on political outcomes. Most of this prior research, however, has focused on the particular case of the United States even as concern elsewhere in the world has grown about political parallelism in media content online, which has sometimes been blamed for heightened social divisiveness. This article investigat…
The Electoral Misinformation Nexus
Electoral misinformation, where citizens believe false or misleading claims about the electoral process and electoral institutions—sometimes actively and strategically spread by political actors—is a challenge to public confidence in elections specifically and democracy more broadly. In this article, we analyze a combination of 42 million clicks in links and apps from behavioral tracking data of 2,200 internet users and a four-wave panel survey t…
Chapter 1. Political and affective ecologies of human-elephant relations
Introduction Relations between humans and elephants are ancient and ever-evolving. Histories and geographies of the land have been co-constituted through material and affective relations between humans and elephants, especially across Asia and Africa (Sukumar, 2003; Trautmann, 2015). The colonial expansion by Europeans also co-opted the abilities of these tropical giants into Western modes of accumulation and dispossession, remnants of which are …
Electing Women in Ethnically Divided Societies
What factors influence women’s political success in ethnically divided societies? Using an original survey experiment in the Indian state of Bihar, supplemented with qualitative interviews, we explore the impact of two factors—intersecting gender and caste identity, and the interaction of campaign appeal with voter experiences of caste discrimination—on women candidates’ success in state-level elections. We find, first, that women voters prefer w…
En-gendering human-wildlife interactions in Northeast India
This article applies a feminist political ecology framework to analyze a particular case of human-wildlife interaction from northeastern India, linking it to the emerging paradigm of 'decolonized conservation.' Through the oral testimonies of local community members with regard to living close to wild Asian elephants in a forest-agriculture landscape matrix of rural Assam, this article argues that place-based conceptualizations of 'wildlife', 'fo…
Everyday conservation
Existing studies on community-based conservation in India, while highlighting the results and effectiveness of conservation interventions fail to engage with the underlining social processes emerging from the interactions among conservation actors. This article demonstrates conservation as a social process in which the actors interact with each other daily. We use the notion of 'Everyday Conservation' to highlight that actors use their resources,…
Party systems and public goods
We argue that two key party system characteristics – the effective number of parties and electoral volatility – have a curvilinear, inverted-U shaped, influence on public goods provision. Rejecting the linear pattern generally assumed in the literature, we contend that optimal governance outcomes will be observed at intermediate levels of party system size and stability. Only under these conditions will the benefits of competition be balanced aga…
Bird conservation from obscurity to popularity
Electing Women in Ethnically Divided Societies
What factors influence women’s political success in ethnically divided societies? Using an original survey experiment in the Indian state of Bihar, supplemented with qualitative interviews, we explore the impact of two factors—intersecting gender and caste identity, and the interaction of campaign appeal with voter experiences of caste discrimination—on women candidates’ success in state-level elections. We find, first, that women voters prefer w…
Exposure to Partisan News and Its Impact on Social Polarization and Vote Choice
Studies have found limited evidence consistent with the theory that partisan and like-minded online news exposure have demonstrable effects on political outcomes. Most of this prior research, however, has focused on the particular case of the United States even as concern elsewhere in the world has grown about political parallelism in media content online, which has sometimes been blamed for heightened social divisiveness. This article investigat…
The Electoral Misinformation Nexus
Electoral misinformation, where citizens believe false or misleading claims about the electoral process and electoral institutions—sometimes actively and strategically spread by political actors—is a challenge to public confidence in elections specifically and democracy more broadly. In this article, we analyze a combination of 42 million clicks in links and apps from behavioral tracking data of 2,200 internet users and a four-wave panel survey t…
Bird conservation from obscurity to popularity
Bird conservation from obscurity to popularity
Party systems and public goods
We argue that two key party system characteristics – the effective number of parties and electoral volatility – have a curvilinear, inverted-U shaped, influence on public goods provision. Rejecting the linear pattern generally assumed in the literature, we contend that optimal governance outcomes will be observed at intermediate levels of party system size and stability. Only under these conditions will the benefits of competition be balanced aga…
Everyday conservation
Existing studies on community-based conservation in India, while highlighting the results and effectiveness of conservation interventions fail to engage with the underlining social processes emerging from the interactions among conservation actors. This article demonstrates conservation as a social process in which the actors interact with each other daily. We use the notion of 'Everyday Conservation' to highlight that actors use their resources,…
En-gendering human-wildlife interactions in Northeast India
This article applies a feminist political ecology framework to analyze a particular case of human-wildlife interaction from northeastern India, linking it to the emerging paradigm of 'decolonized conservation.' Through the oral testimonies of local community members with regard to living close to wild Asian elephants in a forest-agriculture landscape matrix of rural Assam, this article argues that place-based conceptualizations of 'wildlife', 'fo…
Chapter 1. Political and affective ecologies of human-elephant relations
Introduction Relations between humans and elephants are ancient and ever-evolving. Histories and geographies of the land have been co-constituted through material and affective relations between humans and elephants, especially across Asia and Africa (Sukumar, 2003; Trautmann, 2015). The colonial expansion by Europeans also co-opted the abilities of these tropical giants into Western modes of accumulation and dispossession, remnants of which are …
Electing Women in Ethnically Divided Societies
What factors influence women’s political success in ethnically divided societies? Using an original survey experiment in the Indian state of Bihar, supplemented with qualitative interviews, we explore the impact of two factors—intersecting gender and caste identity, and the interaction of campaign appeal with voter experiences of caste discrimination—on women candidates’ success in state-level elections. We find, first, that women voters prefer w…
Representation, ranking and bias of minorities in sampling attributed networks
Ethnonationalist Gender Norms
How do parties in multiethnic societies shape voter attitudes toward female candidates? We address this question, focusing on parties with ideologies that contain ethnonationalist gender norms—patriarchal norms applied to women from an ethnonationalist party's core ethnic constituency. We argue that, while these norms appeal to an ethnonationalist party's base, they also provide informational cues to the party's “non‐core” voters that undermine t…
Exposure to Partisan News and Its Impact on Social Polarization and Vote Choice
Studies have found limited evidence consistent with the theory that partisan and like-minded online news exposure have demonstrable effects on political outcomes. Most of this prior research, however, has focused on the particular case of the United States even as concern elsewhere in the world has grown about political parallelism in media content online, which has sometimes been blamed for heightened social divisiveness. This article investigat…
The Electoral Misinformation Nexus
Electoral misinformation, where citizens believe false or misleading claims about the electoral process and electoral institutions—sometimes actively and strategically spread by political actors—is a challenge to public confidence in elections specifically and democracy more broadly. In this article, we analyze a combination of 42 million clicks in links and apps from behavioral tracking data of 2,200 internet users and a four-wave panel survey t…
Do Local Gender Quotas in Multilevel Democracies Improve the Electability of Women at Higher Tiers? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in North India
Do local gender quotas in multilevel democracies have “spillover effects” for the electability of women at higher tiers? Using a conjoint survey experiment in North India, we assess how exposure to village-level female leaders elected through a gender quota affects voter support for state-level female candidates. Based on prior literature, we develop a “multilevel learning” logic, whereby local gender quota exposure increases support for state-le…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (3 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Geography (3 works)